Bend Your Guitar with Confidence The Secret to Perfect Side Thickness

It is heated by what will be a 60w (or higher wattage) light bulb, as soon as I can get around to buying/ finding a slim enough one to fit inside the tube. In the bending instructions on the StewMac website there is a picture of a simple two sided rack made from MDF and dowel rods. Before I start ... Unfortunately, a little extra thickness will add significantly to the bending problems, because the stiffness of a material is proportional to the cube of the ... Just make sure you get the wood to the proper thickness (0.075 inches, in my case) and it'll bend just fine. I did this in my home office using ... Letting the wood heat up before trying to bend it. · Bending the wood by “rolling” it around the pipe. · Holding the bend in place after taking it off the iron. Luthiers rejoice, there's an inexpensive press that will do the job quite nicely. Luthier and woodworker Behrad Gorgani collaborated with Ted ... I had just changed a new job recently so not much leave to take to make the guitar. ... I use the Aluminium pipe coupled with the heat gun to bend ... Backs between 0.085"-0.120", sides 0.70-0.085". Depends on the type of wood and size of the instrument. Some luthiers do go thinner but they are ... You should look into a "hot pipe" setup. That is what luthiers do for bending the ribs (sides) of guitars, mandolins, or violins. Basically ... I have a Martin 2008 golden era D-18 and those sides measure .070". Unless you are doing a cutaway, .080" should be fine for bending. I use a ...